Royal Welsh: Wiltshire

(asked on 8th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the estimated contribution of the Royal Welsh regiment was to the local economy where that regiment based in Wiltshire in each of the last five years.


This question was answered on 17th January 2018

Recruits to the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh initially attend the Infantry Training Centre at Catterick before moving to join their battalion which has been based at Lucknow barracks, in Tidworth, Wiltshire since April 2013. From this time until present, 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh manpower liability has been around 730 military posts and around 10 directly employed civilian posts. Civilian contractors also support the battalion but due to the way that these contracts are organised by region, we are unable to provide numbers.

The decision to base a Regiment in a specific location is dictated by the role, command and training requirements of the Regiment. The Ministry of Defence does not routinely undertake economic impact assessments to determine the contribution of any unit or site to the local economy, we have not made an estimate of the contribution of the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh.

Reticulating Splines